by Doubtfully Yours 65 Replies latest social current
Corporate America (and other countries, it's just an expression, okay?) steals from us every day, and no one is advocating shooting them.
Oh, but wait,,, just like the WTS, they have high-priced lawyers to get them off, so it's okay ... because they are doing it legally.
This looting is just a drop in the bucket compared to the real theft in our society ...
Sorry couldn't figure out how to embed the page, but:
From the Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3331427
Aug. 30, 2005, 1:37PM
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — With much of the city flooded by Hurricane Katrina, looters floated garbage cans filled with clothing and jewelry down the street in a dash to grab what they could.
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In some cases, looting today took place in full view of police and National Guard troops.
At a Walgreen's drug store in the French Quarter, people were running out with grocery baskets and coolers full of soft drinks, chips and diapers.
When police finally showed up, a young boy stood in the door screaming, "86! 86!" — the radio code for police — and the crowd scattered.
Denise Bollinger, a tourist from Philadelphia, stood outside and snapped pictures in amazement.
"It's downtown Baghdad," the housewife said. "It's insane. I've wanted to come here for 10 years. I thought this was a sophisticated city. I guess not."
Around the corner on Canal Street, the main thoroughfare in the central business district, people sloshed headlong through hip-deep water as looters ripped open the steel gates on the front of several clothing and jewelry stores.
One man, who had about 10 pairs of jeans draped over his left arm, was asked if he was salvaging things from his store.
"No," the man shouted, "that's EVERYBODY'S store."
Looters filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on bits of plywood and insulation as National Guard lumbered by.
Mike Franklin stood on the trolley tracks and watched the spectacle unfold.
"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.
A man walked down Canal Street with a pallet of food on his head. His wife, who refused to give her name, insisted they weren't stealing from the nearby Winn-Dixie supermarket. "It's about survival right now," she said as she held a plastic bag full of purloined items. "We got to feed our children. I've got eight grandchildren to feed."
At a drug store on Canal Street just outside the French Quarter, two police officers with pump shotguns stood guard as workers from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel across the street loaded large laundry bins full of medications, snack foods and bottled water.
"This is for the sick," Officer Jeff Jacob said. "We can commandeer whatever we see fit, whatever is necessary to maintain law."
Another office, D.J. Butler, told the crowd standing around that they would be out of the way as soon as they got the necessities.
"I'm not saying you're welcome to it," the officer said. "This is the situation we're in. We have to make the best of it."
The looting was taking place in full view of passing National Guard trucks and police cruisers.
One man with an armload of clothes even asked a policeman, "can I borrow your car?"
Some in the crowd splashed into the waist-deep water like giddy children at the beach.
I love this guys sense of entitlement.
Now this is a crock of shit:
"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.
But this isnt:
A man walked down Canal Street with a pallet of food on his head. His wife, who refused to give her name, insisted they weren't stealing from the nearby Winn-Dixie supermarket. "It's about survival right now," she said as she held a plastic bag full of purloined items. "We got to feed our children. I've got eight grandchildren to feed."
At a drug store on Canal Street just outside the French Quarter, two police officers with pump shotguns stood guard as workers from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel across the street loaded large laundry bins full of medications, snack foods and bottled water.
"This is for the sick," Officer Jeff Jacob said. "We can commandeer whatever we see fit, whatever is necessary to maintain law."
Another office, D.J. Butler, told the crowd standing around that they would be out of the way as soon as they got the necessities.
"I'm not saying you're welcome to it," the officer said. "This is the situation we're in. We have to make the best of it."
eh this is an old Iraq Qar cartoon and I couldn't help myself..
Even if the current policy (unwritten or informal) is to simply standby like observers and allow the looting to continue, I worry that it won't take long for a sudden spark to ignite some degree of hysteria.
I would hate to imagine large crowds uncontrollably looting and fighting amongst themselves for the items they need and/or the items they want!
I hope at some point they intend to keep things somewhat orderly and ensure violence doesn't erupt. Imagine a jewelry store or electronics store that are unattended, and then add 10-15, maybe 25-50 desparate and determined people, and let the games begin!
How soon before a military surplus store or hunting/gun shop is raided and looted for handguns, shotguns and rifles? This is Louisianna, which may not ban assault rifles as a southern christian baptist NRA, Bush supporting political environment. It could deteriorate quickly if common sense does not take over.
You sure did forget to see this though:
"Around the corner on Canal Street, the main thoroughfare in the central business district, people sloshed headlong through hip-deep water as looters ripped open the steel gates on the front of several clothing and jewelry stores."
Like I said, I like their sense of entitlement.
This is reminding me of the LA riots.
Mike Franklin stood on the trolley tracks and watched the spectacle unfold.
"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.
How sad, when we live in the land of plenty.
How soon before a military surplus store or hunting/gun shop is raided and looted for handguns, shotguns and rifles?
I'd bet that the owners of those shops are sitting on the roofs just waiting for somebody to try to loot them. They'll pick em off like squirrels in the garden.
New Orleans Visitors Bureau
"Around the corner on Canal Street, the main thoroughfare in the central business district, people sloshed headlong through hip-deep water as looters ripped open the steel gates on the front of several clothing and jewelry stores."
Oh, I saw it but forgot to include it in my post. More of the same shit from the same crock. The crock named "entitlement."
